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Police Minister Mark Mitchell was upset that no one took him seriously
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That little model reminds me of UK author Leslie Thomas’ experience with the police when a wandering orphan lad. The Mr Plods used to give him a bacon buttie or something when he gave himself up and then return him to the institution. That was policing in a good way. (Leslie became a famous author with a very human touch.)
So who absconded from Enid Blyton’s Toyland, Mr Plod ?
“ A policeman’s lot is not a happy one.
When the coster’s finished jumping on his mother
He loves to lie abasking in the sun,
Ah, take one consideration with another,
A policeman’s lot is not a happy one”
From : The Pirates of Penzance aka The bottom warmers of Bowen Street.